You knew that one beneficiary of over-fishing (it removes competition) and climate change (they like it warm) is that cephalopod populations are booming, right? Those of us who love the little beasties also have appreciate that they are a portent of coming oceanic doom.
Spooky.
I assume that will be the actual density of them in our future oceans. I also assume they will each be the size of shipping containers. At birth.
Calimari!!!
And a great dustcover photo for an SF book,
And they’re intelligent!
Um…
I for one salute our new cephalopod overlords!
John Wyndham already wrote it:The Kraken Wakes.
How would octopus fare in a nuclear war?
I think them’s commensal bacteria glowing like that.
numerobis, their Pacific island bomb tests–the ones we thought were ours–were conclusive… but they aren’t sharing the data, for some reason.
Does their “live fast, die young” lifecycle give them an evolutionary advantage, ie, they can evolve faster to a changing environment?
Now we just need to train them to operate spacecraft – think of the possibilities.